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Father’s obesity in early puberty doubles asthma-risk for future offspring: Boys who have considerable weight gain between childhood and puberty, double the risk of having asthma as an adult, and for future offspring

An international EU-study (ALEC), including researchers from the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen, has shown that

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Immune cells destroy healthy brain connections, diminish cognitive function in obese mice: Obesity may drive microglia into a synapse-eating frenzy that leads to cognitive impairment

Obesity leads to cognitive impairment by activating microglial cells, which consume otherwise functional synapses in the hippocampus, according to a

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